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Schopenhauer ve Nietzsche Nihilizmi Sarkacında Dövüş Kulübü Filminin Çözümlemesi
The Analysis of the Film Fight Club in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Nihilism

Author(s): Meral Serarslan, Cenk Ateş
Subject(s): Contemporary Philosophy, Evaluation research, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Serdar Öztürk
Keywords: Will, Nihilism; Freedom; Fight Club;

Summary/Abstract: In the history of thought, the problem of human freedom, which is reduced to singular actions without any difference in structure among people, has evolved from human to entirely as a person with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The consensus between the two philosophers differs in terms of the way to reach freedom. Schopenhauer’s free ideal person, who refuses to will by seizing the reality behind the view, arrives inevitably to nihilism. For Nietzsche, the ideal person, who ignores the dominant values, passes his way by nihilism but can create new values by transcending this point. The disagreement forms in Nietzsche in the axis of passive nihilism, which deprives life of value, and active nihilism, which rejects not life but the interpretation of life with the prevailing moral understanding. This classification in nihilism puts Schopenhuer, who stops the will, and Nietzsche, who destroys the values that stops the will by active nihilism, into two opposing poles. Although it serves different purposes, the word ‘no’ is affirmed by both philosophers. No is considered the final point in Schopenhauer while it is expressed as a prerequisite for a great ‘yes’ in Nietzsche.

  • Issue Year: 4/2019
  • Issue No: Sp. Iss
  • Page Range: 553-570
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish